Recent Prize Winners
Prize winners for 2024
Best doctoral dissertation
Mathew Frith - American Protectionist Thought: The Economic Philosophy and Theory of the 19th Century American Protectionists
Supervisors: Jerry Courvisanos, Alex Millmow, and Jeremy Smith, Federation University Australia
2022
Best doctoral dissertation
Riko Stevens - The Theory of Speculation in the Marshallian Tradition: Marshall, Pigou, Lavington, and Keynes on the Microeconomics of Speculation
Supervisor: Michael McLure, University of Western Australia
2017
Winner of P. D. Groenewegen Prize
Christian Gehrke (2015) - 'Georg von Charasoff: a neglected contributor to the Classical-Marxian Tradition'
Best doctoral dissertation
Karen Knight - A. C. Pigou and the Marshallian 'thought' style (UWA 2017)
Best Masters thesis
Riko Stevens - The theory of speculation in the history of economic thought: the contributions of Adam Smith. J.S.Mill and Alfred Marshall revisited (University of Auckland, 2016)
2015
There was, according to the preferential voting of members of the editorial board, two joint winners for that year.
The winners were:
Susan Howson ‘The Uses of Biography and the History of Economics’;
Stephen Medema ‘The Coase theorem Downunder: Revisiting the Economic Record Controversy’
2013
Best doctoral dissertation
Two prizes were awarded in 2013. The winners were:
Edward Mariyani Squire (UWS) - Opacity and Rhetoric
Supervisors: Dick Bryan and Evan Jones, University of Sydney;
Arnaldo Barone (Victoria University) - Veblen and the public support of the Arts
Supervisor: John King. La Trobe University
For the best honours thesis
Philip Metaxas (UWA) - Australia’s contribution to international trade theory; the dependent economy model
Supervisor: Jurg Weber, University of Western Australia
Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize
Alex Millmow for his article ‘Colin Clark and Australia’ in HER No 56
2011
Best dissertation
Neil Hart - Marshall’s Equilibrium and Evolution: Then and Now
Supervisor: Peter Kriesler, University of New South Wales
Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize
Gregory C.G. Moore, ‘Placing Donald Winch in Context: An Essay on Wealth and Life’ published in the History of Economics Review, No. 52, 2010.
2009
Best doctoral dissertation
Kerrie Louise Mitchener - Preference and Utility in Economic Theory and the History of Economic Thought.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Ghanshyam Mehta (now retired)
Best master’s thesis
Lisa Meehan, ‘Heisenbergian uncertainty in Economics: an Ontological perspective’.
Supervisor: Tony Andres, University of Auckland
Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize
John E. King ‘Not the devils decade: Nicholas Kaldor in the 1930s” History of Economics Review No.46
2007
No prize awarded for postgraduate work
Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize
M.V. White ‘Cultural circles of the Empire: Bibliographical notes on W.S. Jevons’s Antipodean interlude, 1854-1859’, History of Economics Review. No. 43
2005
Best doctoral dissertation
Alex Millmow - The Power of Economic Ideas: the origins of macroeconomic management in interwar Australia
Supervisor: Selwyn Cornish, Australian National University
Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize
‘The Power of Economic Ideas: Australian economists in the Thirties’ (published in the History of Economics Review No. 37, 2003.